Re: [OpenVerse] Filesystem Heirarchy Standard

["jack_ N_thabox" <jack_n_thabox@hotmail.com>]

Environment Variable sounds better, seems more flexiable and easier to
intergrate into programs that may use openverse in the future.


>From: Cruise <cruise@openverse.org>
>Reply-To: openverse@openverse.org
>To: openverse@openverse.org
>Subject: Re: [OpenVerse] Filesystem Heirarchy Standard
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:54:35 -0500
>
>On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html
>
>From this document......
>
>4.5 /usr/lib : Libraries for programming and packages
>
>/usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that are 
>not
>intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts.
>
>Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib. If an 
>application
>uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent data exclusively used by 
>the
>application should be placed within that subdirectory. For example, the 
>perl5
>subdirectory for Perl 5 modules and libraries.
>
>-----------------------
>
>Seems to sum up exactly what OpenVerse is doing with the mild exception of
>OpenVerse.tcl which is symbolically linked to /usr/bin/OpenVerse
>
>I feel that breaking up the application as echo suggested over complicates 
>the
>install and is not at all nessescary.
>
>OpenVerse is relocatable in two ways.
>
>1. Change the value of libdir and libbase in the OpenVerse.tcl and move the
>directory anywhere you would like it to be. This is the prefered method for 
>a
>system wide installation.
>
>2. When the new release comes out (soon, I promis) Individual users can run
>OpenVerse from any directory on the system by specifying an environment
>variable named OVRUNDIR which points to the system OpenVerse directory.
>
>--
>Cruise -
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